If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re likely wanting to handle almost all of the service to be completed on your Dacia Duster, but some are more challenging than others and need the removal of body parts or components to access the part you want to focus on. We would like to help you in this task. That’s why today we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Dacia Duster. This task is not very challenging and you should have the ability to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Dacia Duster, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Dacia Duster
So let’s begin our content page with the front bumper of your Dacia Duster. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to adhere to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Dacia Duster in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we recommend you to lift your Dacia Duster and to remove the front wheels to have a best access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your vehicle: Would seem evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Remove the wheel arches: They’re also named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Dacia Duster. Depending on your car features and the year of your model, you will also be able to find staples, to do this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it carefully with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is behind your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your Dacia Duster on the sides.
- Unscrew the screws or remove the clips on the upper part of the bumper in the engine compartment.
- Now it’s time to go under your Dacia Duster to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the car, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Be sure you disconnect the connection of the plate lighting and the distance control sensor if you have it.
- Carefully remove the front bumper by first unclipping the sides. If it doesn’t come off, you probably forgot a screw or a clip. Think of working with a carpet or other to prevent that it gets scratched by touching the ground.
That’s it, you’ve seen all the steps of how to remove the front bumper from your Dacia Duster, to reassemble it adhere to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Dacia Duster
And to conclude, whether or not the process is quite identical, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Dacia Duster. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will simply give you the broad outlines, read the part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more info.
- Start with executing the same first step, that is, lift your Dacia Duster and take out your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Dacia Duster serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Dacia Duster to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Remove the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it much easier to remove the bumper from your Dacia Duster.
- Take off the lower bindings underneath your Dacia Duster.
- Simultaneously, make sure un plug the rear license plate light and the reverse radar sensors if you are equipped with them.
- Unscrew the top brackets from the top of the trunk.
- Now all you have to do is remove the rear bumper from your Dacia Duster, adhere to the same technique as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Dacia Duster whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are just about the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
If you need more guides on the Dacia Duster, go to our Dacia Duster category.
